Posted on 06/23/2009 2:18:05 PM PDT by lizol
Poland Gets 1st Openly Gay Rabbi
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
WARSAW, Poland When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew.
But Katz's life could hardly be more different from that prewar eastern European culture, at least in one key respect: He is Poland's first openly gay rabbi.
Born in Argentina 53 years ago to parents who fled Poland before the Holocaust, Katz is the latest rabbi to play his part in reviving a once vibrant Jewish community that was all but wiped out by Hitler.
He settled into Warsaw's historic Jewish district in March with Kevin Gleason, a former Hollywood producer on such reality TV shows as "The Bachelor" and "Nanny 911," with whom he entered into a registered domestic partnership in Los Angeles two years ago.
They live only three streets from the birth home of Katz's father in a modern and spacious apartment with their dogs, two gentle brown boxers. Katz says he is moved by the links to his past, but keeps his focus on the future.
"I don't think we will come back to this great Jewish life," he said, referring to prewar Poland, a country where one person in 10 was Jewish and where synagogues, yeshivas and shtetls defined the landscape. "But I hope we will have a normal Jewish life in Poland."
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And this is exactly what Poland needed!
Sarcasm off
A gay Polish Rabbi?
This has the makings of the mother of all off-color jokes...
Who stole the Kishka, and where is he hiding it?
So he be a he blew?

Rabbu Tuckman..... faggilas?
Robin Hood......No just merry men.
Go, meat!...
Go, meat!...
I said a Beef Hot Links!
I said a Beef Hot Links!
I said a Beef Hot Links!
I said a Beef Hot Links!
I said a Brat, Beef Kielbasa, Hot Smoked Sausage, Cheddarwurst!
I said a Brat, Beef Kielbasa, Hot Smoked Sausage, Cheddarwurst!
When I say Hillshire, you say Farms! Hillshire!
Farms!
GO MEAT!!!
What an abomination.
I read this quote from the article:
“He keeps a kosher home”
Homosexual acts are not kosher
Oy veh!
“fagalas?”
I think they were just talking about his sausage.
“women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals”
I hope not only Jewish readers caught the problem with that phrase.
Maybe fires are also OK in the form of Judaism that also permits sodomy.
Is he kosher?/
I guess he never read the old testament.
A gay Polish Rabbi walks into a bar...
so now I must be... banished to the land of wind and ghosts “Mr. Sparkle”
because he kissed everybody in the joint.
Disgusting. Stop calling him a “rabbi”. You have to actually observe the Torah to be a rabbi.
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